Referring to my experience noted below in sig; this non profit agency worked cooperatively with NPD.
When a parent contacted NPD to report that their child had left home, an officer would respond to the home (or whatever location had been requested during the call to the police).
The responding officer would gather information for a *missing person report*:
Name of person believed to be missing, date of birth, home address.
- Identifying details such as: hair color, eye color, height, weight.
- Distinguishing marks such as: birth marks & location on body; tattoos & location; piercings & location etc.
- Hairstyle: short/long; how worn at last sighting and/or normally.
- Last seen wearing such as; actual clothing, colors, any distinguishing emblem, wording, logo, brand name-top, bottom, shoes, coat/jacket, scarf etc.; jewelry-rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces; head wear-hat, scarf, headband, hairbow etc.
- Recent photo of individual
Other information gathered:
- Date, time & place of last location individual was seen.
- Date, time & place of last contact with individual if different from above.
- Did they take anything with them: clothing, phone, personal items of value or special importance?
- Name of person filing report, relationship & contact information
- Do they have a license & access to a vehicle? Is vehicle gone?
All listed above iwas pretty much standard information gathered for the report.
Now, some officers were more detailed and would gather more information.
Such as, noting:
- What occurred at the time individual left, or in *hours* prior to them leaving?
- Friends, family or other people known by individual in case they might be with them or might go to where they live.
- Any known regular hangouts
Now, during the discussion with the person filing the report, if the officer was given information that the parent/guardian/caregiver deemed important often this was noted also. Such as, something written in a diary; something in-particular posted to social media; information given parent/guardian/caregiver by the individual's friend(s) etc.
The responding officer would not automatically do any search of the individual's room or request to read a diary etc. Their role when responding to take the report generally was to gather and note pertinent information. No situation is the same, so some of what was gathered would be broader in detail than others.
The report was filed & processed through the NPD, entered into database and dispersed to other systems.
The reports were handled within the detective division. So, any determination as to whether an *investigation* was necessary occurred with them.
The non-profit agency played a very large role in these cases in cooperation with the NPD, but I don't need to go into all that here. If you have any particular questions and I feel that I can offer an answer, I will.
At this point, the public does not know if any form of a NPD search within the home in Tarrallton has taken place.
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I have more that I can offer (only offer) explanation to but I will do that in another post.
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*Please note: I hope that this helps provide a *general idea* of what most likely took place when the officer responded to the home for the report. I am not in any way connected to the case nor was I present at the time that the report was taken. What I've shared above stems from my prior professional experience when I worked at the non profit that provided crisis intervention services to Hampton Roads youth & families and did work in cooperation with NPD.
